Balthazar Getty

A scion of the fabulously wealthy oil family, Balthazar Getty fell into acting due to a capricious twist of fate at age 13, before moving on to a middling career in film and television, winning a batt...
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The things they say:

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WENN.com
Feb 13, 2015

"My best friend's designing it. We grew up together (and) we were best friends when we were seven and eight and she went on to be a great designer." Boyhood star Patricia Arquette will be wearing an outfit created by actor Balthazar Getty's designer wife, Rosetta, when she walks the red carpet at the Academy Awards next weekend (22Feb15).

Actor Rob Lowe played a real life hero in Hawaii on Saturday (03Jan15) after helping to rescue passengers from a sailboat after it ran aground.
The former The West Wing star was on vacation when he witnessed the disaster unfold off the coast of Kona, and he immediately sprang into action to do what he could to help.
The 50 year old was photographed on a jet ski helping other volunteers who were searching the choppy waters for victims of the crashed Hawaii Aloha vessel, reports Britain's Daily Mail newspaper.
Four of the five passengers had been able to escape on a life raft before members of the Hawaii County Fire Department came to their rescue, although one crew member is still missing. The search for the remaining victim continues.
Lowe rang in the New Year in Hawaii with his wife Sheryl Berkoff. He also enjoyed a New Year's Eve (31Dec14) reunion with his former Brothers &amp; Sisters co-star Balthazar Getty, who was also on vacation in Hawaii.

Actor Balthazar Getty celebrated the launch of his wife's new clothing line by inviting guests including Demi Moore, Emile Hirsch and Marisa Tomei to a dinner party at their Los Angeles home. The former Brothers & Sisters star gathered family and friends to fete designer Rosetta Millington's latest line, which went on sale on net-a-porter.com on Friday (21Nov14). Other famous faces in attendance included Moore's daughters with Bruce Willis, Rumer and Scout, Alex Pettyfer, Rebecca Gayheart and Soleil Moon Frye.

Ozomatli frontman Asdru Sierra fights back the urge to throw up before every gig because he is so nervous about delivering a great performance. The musician admits he still struggles with an attack of the nerves every time he prepares to go onstage and the feeling has only worsened since launching his solo project, Abstrakto, with actor/producer Balthazar Getty.
Sierra tells WENN, "I was scared s**tless (about going solo). I mean, before I go out (onstage), I feel like throwing up because I'm nervous.
"I get nervous every time because it means that much to me. I really care about what I play. I don't do it to look cool, I don't do it to meet chicks; I'm not like that. I do music because I love doing it and it means so much for me...
"I just get scared. I don't want to f**k up. I want to have a good experience because every time I perform, it's an experience. When I was a kid and I went to go see a concert, the most memorable stuff is how I felt. I remember when I was a teenager I went to go see U2 do the Joshua Tree tour. It was something about them, back then, that moment, how everyone felt. I want to give that to people, I want people to feel good.
"When I was living in the ghetto, seeing people get shot every day, my brother died in the streets, (but) when I went to that concert, I forgot about it for that moment, you know? I kinda want to give that to people. I got hooked on that, that experience that you're supposed to feel with music."

Actress Sienna Miller has opened up about her past mistakes in a candid new magazine interview, insisting she is lucky to still have a Hollywood career. As ex-boyfriend Jude Law testifies about her alleged affair with Daniel Craig, while they were dating, as part of a trial into the U.K.'s phone-hacking scandal, of which both he and Miller were victims, the Alfie star admits she made life difficult for herself by not "behaving the way you should" in her personal life.
The actress also famously dated Rhys Ifans and Balthazar Getty, who was married with four kids at the time, and tells Britain's Esquire magazine, "I sabotaged things. I burnt a lot of bridges."
She adds, "On set, I was first to arrive, last to leave, best friends with the crew, totally professional, no d**king around. But when I wasn't at work, I wasn't behaving the way you should.
"I'm very lucky to have a second chance in that town... It was really bad. What was going on in my private life was not an easy thing to read about. People don't want to see films with people they don't approve of in them."
Miller also credits her reconciliation with Law after a bitter break-up, amid a cheating scandal, for helping to mend the former couple's relationship and turning them into good friend for life.
She explains, "When something ends in a way like that, it's important if you can, in a way, go back and revisit it and either shut that door or create a new room. So it (reconciliation) was a very healthy, cathartic experience, and I think it paved the way for both of us to have great futures with no animosity or drama.
"(It was) such a huge relief, to heal that. And I'm great friends with him and with his children. I love them, madly. Just huge love and respect for all of them."
Miller has her own family now - she became a mum to daughter Marlowe 18 months ago and is engaged to marry actor Tom Sturridge.
She says, "I feel really settled. I have a wonderful life. I'm up every morning with a little baby. That gives you incredible perspective. It's such a gift. And it's grounding in a way you can't describe.
"(And Tom) is the antithesis of me, really. And that's a first for me, to be in a relationship with someone who's in a lot of respects very different. He's the perfect balance to my lunacy, which makes him sound really boring, but he's not, at all. It's good, it works. It's not easy, of course, but we're a family and I love that. I wake up and I'm like, 'I'm a family, I'm a grown up!' I still can't believe it."

The 54 year old, the grandson of oil tycoon Jean Paul Getty, died on Sunday (06Feb11) in Buckinghamshire, England after a long illness.
Getty had been in poor health since 1981 when a drug overdose caused a stroke, which left him paralysed and nearly blind.
The overdose came just eight years after he was kidnapped in Rome, Italy and held for a $17 million (£11.3 million) ransom. His captors, who cut off part of his ear, were never found but Getty was discovered alive in southern Italy in 1973.
The troubled heir welcomed Balthazar with his wife Gisela two years later (75).

The actor joined the missing person's appeal and hit the streets of Los Angeles last month (Oct10) to help track down a "mentally challenged" man known as Rocky.
The male, in his 40s, is the son of one of Getty's good friends and he was discovered living on the streets of San Antonio last week (ends07Nov10).
His family immediately flew out from California to Texas and Rocky was reunited with his relatives on Tuesday (09Nov10).

Getty's character Tommy Walker was axed from the show as a regular last year (09) following his cheating scandal with British actress Sienna Miller, but he has returned as a guest star a handful of times.
And now Getty, who has reconciled with his wife Rosetta, is heading back for a permanent role on the show, which chronicles the ups and downs of a well-to-do California family, according to Eonline.com.

The actor walked around the city handing out leaflets in a bid to track down a "mentally challenged" man who has been missing for nearly two years.
The man, named only as Rocky, is the son of one of Getty's friends and the actor hopes the public will be able to help locate him.
He is described as in his 40s, around five foot five inches tall, with brown hair and hazel eyes, according to TMZ.com.
Rocky was last spotted in west Los Angeles a year ago.

The Brothers &amp; Sisters star hit headlines two years ago when he was accused of cheating on his wife Rosetta with the British actress.
The scandal dogged the pair for months and Miller recently admitted she suffered a "semi-breakdown" because of the furore surrounding the doomed love affair.
Getty separated from his partner after his fling with Miller was revealed, but admits they have now reconciled for the sake of their four children.
He tells America's Harper's Bazaar magazine, "Here's the bottom line: It was a very challenging time for everybody involved. But I loved and missed my family too much not to make it work. Rosetta is understanding enough and spiritual enough to let us try."

Played a 1950s Russian music student with rock'n'roll fever in Paul Haggis's "Red Hot"

Co-starred in David Lynch's "Lost Highway"

Featured as a tagger (graffiti writer) in "Where the Day Takes You"

Had leading role as a recovering addict who begins to frequent underground clubs in L.A. in "Shadow Hours"

Cast as Thomas 'Tommy' Walker, one of the five Walker siblings in the ABC drama "Brothers & Sisters"

Feature debut, starring as Ralph in "Lord of the Flies"

Played a high school sophomore who lies about his age to go off to war in "December"

Co-starred in David Arquette's directorial debut, "The Tripper"; co-produced by Arquette and his wife

Cast opposite Joaquin Phoenix and John Travolta in "Ladder 49"

Made cameo appearance in "The Center of the World"

Played David Wheeler on the TNT miniseries "Into the West"

Portrayed James Chandler in "The Swords" portion of Showtime's series "The Hunger"

Appeared in "My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys"

Produced tracks for the debut recording of the band Mannish

Cast in the horror film "Feast"; a result of the third season of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck's Project Greenlight competition

Appeared in regular role on the FOX series, "Pasadena"

Played the recurring role of Richard Montana, a male witch on the WB's "Charmed"

Had a small role as a gas station attendant in Oliver Stone's "Natural Born Killers"

Summary

A scion of the fabulously wealthy oil family, Balthazar Getty fell into acting due to a capricious twist of fate at age 13, before moving on to a middling career in film and television, winning a battle with addiction, and making his biggest headlines as an adulterer in the tabloids. Discovered by casting agents, Getty made his film debut as the lead in the remake of "Lord of the Flies" (1990) before appearing in the pretty boy Western sequel "Young Guns II" (1990). A hot, young property in Hollywood, over the next several years Getty picked up supporting roles in high-profile films like Oliver Stone's ultra-violent "Natural Born Killers" (1994) and the Sylvester Stallone comic book fiasco "Judge Dredd" (1995). He also joined an ensemble cast of fresh faces in Ridley Scott's maritime adventure "White Squall" (1996), as well as landing a starring role in David Lynch's unfathomable neo-noir "Lost Highway" (1997). After years of drug and alcohol abuse, Getty checked himself into rehab, emerging clean and sober and channeling the experience into his performance in the indie thriller "Shadow Hours" (2000), as a recovering addict lured back toward L.A.'s underground scene. He made attempts at landing an ongoing series with projects like the failed "Pasadena" (Fox, 2001-02), in addition to picking up recurring roles on popular series such as "Alias" (ABC, 2001-06), and supporting turns in smaller films like the gore-fest "Feast" (2006). Later that year he joined the cast of the successful drama "Brothers & Sisters" (ABC, 2006- ), but it would be for publicly cheating on his wife with actress Sienna Miller that would overshadow Getty's promising career as leading man.

Name

Role

Comments

J Paul Getty III

Father

Famous for being kidnapped in 1973 by the Italian mafia for a $17 million ransom; had his ear cut off when his grandfather refused to lend his father the money to pay the ransom; he was eventually released, after a reduced ransom of $3.2 million was paid; he was permanently affected by the trauma, and became a heavy drug user; suffered a stroke after overdosing on methadone, Valium and alcohol in 1981, which left him blind and a quadriplegic; died February 6, 2011 in Buckinghamshire, England after a long illness

Jean Paul Getty II

Grandfather

(1932-2003); better known as Paul Getty

Grace Getty

Daughter

Mother is Rosetta Millington

June Getty

Daughter

Born October 2, 2007; mother is Rosetta Millington

Violet Getty

Daughter

Mother is Rosetta Millington

Cassius Getty

Son

Born July 17, 2000; mother is Rosetta Millington

J Getty

Great-Grandfather

(1892-1976); founder of the Getty Oil Company; at one time was one of the richest men in the world

Education

Name

Bel-Air Preparatory School

Notes

"People assume that I've led this sheltered, pampered, life (a scion of the Getty oil family). The truth is, I'm not very close to the Getty family, and I grew up in a pretty average way in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles." - from Premiere Magazine, August 1992

"As much as I love film, there's nothing like the satisfaction of making music. My dream is to film one or two movies a year for the rest of my life and make music in between." - Getty in Premiere Magazine, August 1992

Was in a band with David Arquette called Thirteen Floor.

He has the letter "BZAR" tattooed on the fingers of his right hand.

Balthazar suffered a drug addiction in the 1990's but got over it after losing a good friend to an overdose.